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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






2. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






3. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






4. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






5. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






6. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






7. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






8. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






9. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






10. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






11. A poem that tells a story.






12. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






13. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






14. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






15. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






16. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






17. The selection of words in a literary work.






18. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






19. The main character of a literary work.






20. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






21. A strong pause within a line.






22. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






23. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






24. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






25. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






26. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






27. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






28. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






29. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






30. The dictionary meaning of a word.






31. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






32. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






33. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






34. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






35. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






36. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






37. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






38. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






39. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






40. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






41. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






42. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






43. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






44. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






45. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






46. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






47. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






48. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






49. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






50. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.